various and sundry

various and sundry

Of or having a large and varied or miscellaneous range. The term is a redundancy ("various" and "sundry" are synonyms) used for emphasis. Shops like these specialize in various and sundry little knickknacks, but rarely anything of real value. I have to distill all the various and sundry details from the experiments into a cohesive report.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

various and sundry

Of different kinds, miscellaneous, as in Various and sundry items did not sell, so they'll probably hold another auction. This expression is a redundancy, the two adjectives meaning just about the same thing.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

various and sundry

Miscellaneous, of different kinds. This phrase is actually redundant, the two adjectives having almost identical meanings. Various has meant “a variety of ” since the 1500s; sundry, which is rarely heard today except in this cliché, has meant “consisting of miscellaneous items” since the late 1700s. Their pairing appears to come from inventory lists of some kind.
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The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer

various and sundry

Different and unspecified items. “Various” means “several different things.” So does “sundry” (variety stores sold sundry goods), so to report that “the meeting discussed various and sundry topics” is to be redundant. But that's never stopped all but the linguistically fastidious from using such expressions.
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Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price
See also:
  • sundry
  • all and sundry
  • bits and pieces
  • emphasis
  • lay emphasis on
  • lay emphasis on (something)
  • bits and bobs
  • fair sex
  • past history
  • everything from A to Z
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Then there are the various and sundry competing crossovers coming, many of which are still in the pipeline despite the rearrangement of the divisional marketing messages.
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This is very easy for us to say today, made much easier by Roberts's research into the various and sundry details that added up to total disaster for the Emperor, whose woes included untried officers, an accidental cavalry attack, a downpour into which the cannons sank, and a series of uninformed snap decisions that, for once, did not by some quirk of nature work.
Waterloo; Napoleon's last gamble
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MPI recognizes Deborah Gaffney
This gives the various and sundry buttons and switches a more upscale appearance, despite their more prosaic Nissan backgrounds.
Stylin'. (Design)
of Bristol) examine the various and sundry artifacts that clotted the landscape of medieval England and its memory, finding them mostly to be elaborate fakes created to support the legend and the sense of identity it provided more than the actual existence of the king.
The Medieval Quest for Arthur